Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime story…
Disclaimer:… I thought we get this over with.
Chapter 4: Cinderella – Grimmjow's style
"Bedtime story!" Harribel announced.
Toshiro groaned, "Can we just go to sleep like every normal person?"
But Harribel ignored him. Instead, she pulled out a thick book and handed it to Grimmjow.
"What?" Grimmjow asked.
"You will be the one who reads Toshiro his bedtime story," Harribel said.
"It's Hitsugaya!" Toshiro snapped.
Harribel looked at the boy.
"Let's choose," she spoke calmly, "Toshiro, or Shiro-chan?!"
Toshiro growled, "Don't call me 'Shiro-chan'!"
"So, Toshiro then," Harribel smirked.
"Fine," Toshiro mumbled.
Harribel then looked back at Grimmjow, "Bedtime story."
"Why me?!"
"That's an order!"
"Fine!" Grimmjow snapped.
He took the book and opened it to a random page.
"Today, we will read 'Cinderella'," Grimmjow said.
"Yay!" Toshiro replied sarcastically.
"Trust me, brat, I don't like this either," Grimmjow sighed, "Now, here we go."
"Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived a happy life with her father. She didn't have a mother, for her mother had passed away long time ago. The father wanted his daughter to have a mother figure to take care of her, so, being a good father he was, the man remarried. The stepmother herself had 2 daughters… Arg, this story is stupid!" Grimmjow complained.
"Just read it!" Harribel screeched.
Grimmjow glared at his superior, but still continued the story.
"But then, tragedy fell to the family," the Sexta suddenly had an idea to make the story more interesting, "The father had been killed by a Hollow."
The others looked at him, "Wha-?"
But Grimmjow still continued with his own version of the story.
"After the father died, the stepmother became the owner of the mansion, and she turned the girl into a servant. Because no one bothered to remember the girl's name, they decided to call her 'Cinderella', which didn't make any sense at all."
"This is interesting," Toshiro smirked.
"Cinderella had to do all the chores in the mansion while the stepmother and her daughters enjoyed themselves at spas and resorts. Twice a month, they traveled around the world. On one of those traveling time, they came across Las Vegas, which was next to Las Noches."
"Really?" Toshiro blinked.
Grimmjow shrugged, "They both have the word 'Las', so I think it will be better if they are next to each other."
"Ok, please continue then."
"When they came to Las Vegas, they decided to go in and tried their luck. But of course, there was no luck for them. So they lost everything and had to live under the bridge. And Cinderella became a thief so that her so-called family had something to it. Not that she cared about them or anything, she just stealing to have something to eat, and what she couldn't eat anymore, she gave them to her stepmother and stepsisters."
"Grimmjow, stop messing with the story!" Harribel snapped.
Toshiro and Grimmjow looked at her, and looked at each other, then shrugged.
"Just continue with your version," Toshiro said.
"I'm glad you like it," Grimmjow smirked, "Anyway, one day, Cinderella sneaked into the palace to steal a pair of crystal shoes so that she could sell them in the black market. She had just succeeded in stealing one of them when guards appeared. So, she sonidoed away."
"Cinderella is an Arrancar?" Szayel wondered.
"Nah, it's just a story," Grimmjow chuckled, "After she stole a shoe, the prince was very angry with the security systems of the palace, so he executed the security-making guys. Then, he hired 5 very skilled assassins to find the thief and take back the shoe. For what seemed like forever, the assassins still couldn't find the thief and therefore, couldn't find the shoe. But then, their luck came. Because these 5 assassins were the bunch of druggies and perverts, so one day, they went to this black market to buy porn movies and drugs. On that day, Cinderella also went to this market to sell the crystal shoe. The assassins saw Cinderella and the shoe, and they kind of had a fight. In the end, Cinderella lost and was killed by the assassins. The assassins bought their drugs, their porn movies and took the shoe back to the palace. The end!"
"That story is awesome!" Toshiro grinned.
"Thank you, brat," Grimmjow closed the book, "This whole bedtime story is more interesting than I thought."
"Indeed," Szayel nodded his head.
"Trash," was all Ulquiorra said.
Harribel just huffed. She didn't like the way Grimmjow changed the story. But Toshiro liked it, so she might just accept it.
"Ok," she clapped her hands, "It's time to bed!"
Toshiro laid down and pulled the blanket up, while his babysitters left the room.
I'm in the mood right now! I just ate two boxes of chocolate and now I'm in sugar high or something. Have to write more!
Check the next chapter!